Tate brothers charged with further trafficking and sex crimes in Romania

Romanian prosecutors have charged social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate with further sex crimes.

They are accused of making more than $1.2m (£888,000) by coercing a girl to do sex acts on video chats, according to the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).

Andrew, 39, is charged with trafficking minors, money laundering and sex with a minor. Tristan, 38, is charged with complicity in trafficking in minors and money laundering.

The Tates - currently in a Miami jail fighting extradition to the UK over separate charges - deny all the allegations.

The brothers - former kickboxers with dual US and British citizenship - have been under criminal investigation in Romania since December 2022.

They have been mainly based there since 2017, drawing a large social media audience - many of them young men - through misogynistic messages and images of a luxury lifestyle.

Many of the new charges centre on a vulnerable woman investigators allege was recruited by Tristan when she was 15.

She is alleged to have been sheltered in a building in Luton, Bedfordshire, for sexual exploitation by Andrew.